Books by author: Richard Lynch

Lynch's book focuses on ways to force Photoshop Elements to let you use techniques that are commonly thought to be available only in the full version of Photoshop. In a sense, he succeeds. There are many techniques here (some of which are provided as plug-ins on an accompanying CD) that allow you to do various color separations and so forth. What's lacking, mostly, is good evidence that these techniques are that much better than what is included in Elements. Sure, I can see some times when a luminosity separation could be very useful, but for the most part these techniques seem like more trouble than they're worth.

Also, fully half the book is devoted to deeply hacking photographs by compositing and synthesizing graphic elements. I can see that being useful for someone doing this for a living, but if this is your job, shouln't you be using the full version of the software?